deepmerge

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Merge the enumerable attributes of two objects deeply.

Check out the changes from version 1.x to 2.0.0

For the old array element-merging algorithm, see the arrayMerge option below.

example

var x = {
	foo: { bar: 3 },
	array: [{
		does: 'work',
		too: [ 1, 2, 3 ]
	}]
}

var y = {
	foo: { baz: 4 },
	quux: 5,
	array: [{
		does: 'work',
		too: [ 4, 5, 6 ]
	}, {
		really: 'yes'
	}]
}

var expected = {
	foo: {
		bar: 3,
		baz: 4
	},
	array: [{
		does: 'work',
		too: [ 1, 2, 3 ]
	}, {
		does: 'work',
		too: [ 4, 5, 6 ]
	}, {
		really: 'yes'
	}],
	quux: 5
}

merge(x, y) // => expected

methods

var merge = require('deepmerge')

merge(x, y, [options])

Merge two objects x and y deeply, returning a new merged object with the elements from both x and y.

If an element at the same key is present for both x and y, the value from y will appear in the result.

Merging creates a new object, so that neither x or y are be modified.

merge.all(arrayOfObjects, [options])

Merges any number of objects into a single result object.

var x = { foo: { bar: 3 } }
var y = { foo: { baz: 4 } }
var z = { bar: 'yay!' }

var expected = { foo: { bar: 3, baz: 4 }, bar: 'yay!' }

merge.all([x, y, z]) // => expected

options

arrayMerge

The merge will also concatenate arrays and merge array values by default.

However, there are nigh-infinite valid ways to merge arrays, and you may want to supply your own. You can do this by passing an arrayMerge function as an option.

function overwriteMerge(destinationArray, sourceArray, options) {
	return sourceArray
}
merge(
	[1, 2, 3],
	[3, 2, 1],
	{ arrayMerge: overwriteMerge }
) // => [3, 2, 1]

To prevent arrays from being merged:

const dontMerge = (destination, source) => source
const output = merge({ coolThing: [1,2,3] }, { coolThing: ['a', 'b', 'c'] }, { arrayMerge: dontMerge })
output // => { coolThing: ['a', 'b', 'c'] }

To use the old (pre-version-2.0.0) array merging algorithm, pass in this function:

function oldArrayMerge(target, source, optionsArgument) {
	var destination = target.slice()
	source.forEach(function(e, i) {
		if (typeof destination[i] === 'undefined') {
			destination[i] = cloneIfNecessary(e, optionsArgument)
		} else if (isMergeableObject(e)) {
			destination[i] = deepmerge(target[i], e, optionsArgument)
		} else if (target.indexOf(e) === -1) {
			destination.push(cloneIfNecessary(e, optionsArgument))
		}
	})
	return destination
}

clone

Deprecated.

Defaults to true.

If clone is false then child objects will be copied directly instead of being cloned. This was the default behavior before version 2.x.

install

With npm do:

npm install deepmerge

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